Special Programme Forced Migration
Supports interdisciplinary research on global forced migration, with a focus on agency, gender, infrastructures, and state influences, encouraging diverse and collaborative approaches.
Funder: Gerda Henkel Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): April 2027 (Full application deadline, projected)
Funding Amounts: Research scholarships: €2,760–€3,720/month (postdoc/senior); PhD scholarships: €1,920/month; plus family, travel, and material aid; funding duration: 1–24 months
Summary: Supports interdisciplinary, globally oriented research on forced migration, focusing on agency, gender, infrastructures, and state influences.
Key Information: All application materials must be submitted in English; only full-time scholarships; no institutional affiliation or nationality restrictions.
Description
This program, initiated by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, funds interdisciplinary research projects that address forced migration as a global phenomenon shaped by violence, conflict, discrimination, poverty, and environmental change. The program aims to fill thematic and methodological gaps in Forced Migration Studies by supporting projects that integrate diverse disciplinary and epistemological approaches. Priority is given to projects engaging with one or more of the following six themes: forced-migration infrastructures, South-South (im)mobilities, multiple displacements, displaced people’s agency, gender and intersectionality, and (supra-)state influences on displacement processes.
Projects should demonstrate both theoretical rigor and practical relevance for social, humanitarian, or political contexts. Comparative, intersectional, and collaborative approaches—especially with local knowledge-producers and those with lived experience of displacement—are strongly encouraged. Research from fields such as the humanities, social sciences, cultural studies, law, and economics is welcome.
